For Choral Music aficionados
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daHere we have an entry in the "Filing Oops" department:
“[T]he forty-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno ... by Alessandro Striggio languished throughout the twentieth century disguised as a nameless four-part Mass by Strusco. Since such a work would appear to be entirely banal, and since no such composer ever existed, scholars have not been in a rush to study this music.”
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mirabilis_syn :
http://mirabilis.ca/2007/12/02/lost-16th-century-mass-discovered-by-berkeley-music-scholar/
Lost 16th-Century Mass Discovered by Berkeley Music Scholar.
More than 400 years after Italian composer Alessandro Striggio wrote his extravagant 40-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, it has been rediscovered by a Berkeley music scholar who identified the work and rescued it from obscurity.
Although most of Striggio’s piece is in 40 different voice parts, the last movement is for 60 separate voices (five 12-part choirs) and is the only known piece of 60-part counterpoint in the history of Western music. "It’s one of the first great pieces to use architecture and space, with musical phrases physically moving around the ring from choir to choir," says Professor of Music Davitt Moroney, who after years of research located a complete set of partbooks for the mass in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. "It is an intellectual achievement of the highest order. There are other large choral works, but Striggio’s mass is unique, with its five eight-part choirs. This is Florentine art at its most spectacular."
I wonder if anyone will ever get to perform this. *hopes*
“[T]he forty-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno ... by Alessandro Striggio languished throughout the twentieth century disguised as a nameless four-part Mass by Strusco. Since such a work would appear to be entirely banal, and since no such composer ever existed, scholars have not been in a rush to study this music.”
mirabilis_syn :http://mirabilis.ca/2007/12/02/lost-16th-century-mass-discovered-by-berkeley-music-scholar/
Lost 16th-Century Mass Discovered by Berkeley Music Scholar.
More than 400 years after Italian composer Alessandro Striggio wrote his extravagant 40-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, it has been rediscovered by a Berkeley music scholar who identified the work and rescued it from obscurity.
Although most of Striggio’s piece is in 40 different voice parts, the last movement is for 60 separate voices (five 12-part choirs) and is the only known piece of 60-part counterpoint in the history of Western music. "It’s one of the first great pieces to use architecture and space, with musical phrases physically moving around the ring from choir to choir," says Professor of Music Davitt Moroney, who after years of research located a complete set of partbooks for the mass in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. "It is an intellectual achievement of the highest order. There are other large choral works, but Striggio’s mass is unique, with its five eight-part choirs. This is Florentine art at its most spectacular."
I wonder if anyone will ever get to perform this. *hopes*
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Date: Monday, 3 December 2007 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: Monday, 3 December 2007 08:14 pm (UTC)...I got sidetracked just now, into this fascinating IHT article. Amazingly:
For some reason the powers-that-then-were at the BBC's classical music network, Radio 3, took against Phillips and his distinctive interpretations of Renaissance polyphony, and the Scholars discovered that they had been formally banned from the airwaves. This would almost certainly have wrecked the chances of a less dedicated and determined ensemble. But in 1987 the Scholars won the "Gramophone" Record of the Year award for their CD of Masses by the Flemish composer Josquin Des Près, coming top not only in the early music category, but also beating the best records in all categories, a feat never achieved before or since by an early music group.
Days before the prizes were announced, word reached Phillips that the decade-long BBC ban had been lifted. "The timing was suspiciously precise," he said. "But then all doors were flung open to us."
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Date: Monday, 3 December 2007 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Friday, 14 December 2007 10:29 pm (UTC)We just did!
Date: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 04:04 am (UTC)--Chris LeCluye (sang with Magnificat)